Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate Ships

Capcom today announced that Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate is now available in stores nationwide for the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS, and also as a digital download in the Nintendo eShop.

Hunters who own both Nintendo 3DS and Wii U versions of the game will be able to transfer their own personal save data from the Wii U version to their copy on Nintendo 3DS, and vice versa. In order to do so, players must download programs in the Nintendo eShop for both systems. From the Nintendo 3DS, the program is called “Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate Data Transfer Program” and from the Wii U, it is the “Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate Packet Relay Tools for Nintendo 3DS.”

Capcom will be supporting the title with free of charge weekly downloadable quests for several months after launch, the first of which are available this week. Releasing in April, a system update will add online cross region functionality.